(foe MEP i zole) Brand: Antizol
• In a poisoning situation, it may not be possible to speak your caregivers that you are pregnant or breast-feeding till you are treated with fomepizole. However, create certain any doctor caring for your pregnancy or your child knows that you have received the medication.
• Speak your caregivers at once if you have any burning, swelling, or skin changes where the medication was injected.
• To be certain this medicine is helping your condition, your blood and urine will need to be tested often. This will help your doctor determine how long to treat you with fomepizole. You will also be watched for any effects of the poisoning, such as problems with vision, breathing, or urination.
• Fomepizole is an antidote to determined types of poison.
• Fomepizole is used to treat poisoning with ethylene glycol (antifreeze) or methanol (contained in solvents, fuels, and another household or automotive chemicals). Fomepizole is sometimes used together with hemodialysis to rid the body of a poison.
• Fomepizole may also be used for purposes another than those listed in this medicine guide.
• You must not receive this medicine if you are allergic to fomepizole.
• FDA pregnancy category C. This medicine may be deleterious to an unborn child and is not recommended in pregnant women unless clearly needed.
• It is not known whether fomepizole passes into breast milk or if it could harm a nursing baby.
• In a poisoning situation, it may not be possible to speak your caregivers that you are pregnant or breast-feeding till you are treated with fomepizole. However, create certain any doctor caring for your pregnancy or your child knows that you have received the medication.
• Fomepizole is given as an injection through a needle placed into a vein. You will receive this injection in a hospital or abnormal setting. The medication should be given slowly through an IV infusion, and every doze can take up to 30 minutes to complete.
• To be certain this medicine is helping your condition, your blood and urine will need to be tested often. This will help your doctor determine how long to treat you with fomepizole. You will also be watched for any effects of the poisoning, such as problems with vision, breathing, or urination.
• Since fomepizole is given as needed by a healthcare professional, it is not likely that you will miss a dose.
• Speak your caregivers right away if you think you have received too many of this medicine.
• Overdose symptoms may include nausea, dizziness, or a spinning sensation.
• Follow your doctor's instructions about any restrictions on food, beverages, or activity after you are treated with fomepizole.
• Get abnormal medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your person, lips, tongue, or throat.
• Speak your caregivers at once if you have any of these serious side effects (some are effects of the poison and not of fomepizole):
· burning, swelling, or skin changes where the medication was injected;
· urinating smaller than normal or not at all;
· quick or slow heart course, feeling like you may pass out; or
· skin rash, bruising, severe tingling, numbness, pain, muscle weakness.
• Smaller serious side effects may include:
· mild skin rash;
· heartburn, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea;
· loss of appetite;
· dizziness, drowsiness, anxiety, or headache;
· metallic taste in your mouth;
· hangover feeling;
· back pain;
· sore throat;
· ringing in your ears; or
· changes in vision, changes in scent or taste senses.
• This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Speak your doctor about any unusual or bothersome side effect. You may message side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
• Speak your doctor if you have recently used any of the next drugs:
· phenytoin (Dilantin);
· carbamazepine (Carbatrol, Tegretol);
· cimetidine (Tagamet); or
· ketoconazole (Nizoral).
• There may be another drugs that can affect fomepizole. Speak your doctor about all your prescription and over-the-counter medications, vitamins, minerals, herbal commodity, and drugs predesigned by another doctors.
• Your doctor or pharmacist can provide more information about fomepizole.
Remember, hold this and all another medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medicine only for the indication prescribed.
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